Four French Plays
Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache, Phaedra
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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2013
Summary
‘Just be sincere, and as a man of honour, Say nothing that does not come from the heart.’
The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but make up the defining period of French theatre. In Corneille’s Cinna (1641), absolute power is explored in ancient Rome, while Molière’s The Misanthrope (1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero reject society for i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141392080 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141392088 |
| Author: | Jean Racine |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
Racine’s plays…create in performance a terrifying and inescapable velocity - they are grippingly exciting
Racine’s plays…create in performance a terrifying and inescapable velocity - they are grippingly exciting – Alan Hollinghurst
Jean Racine
PIERRE CORNEILLE is often hailed as the father of French tragedy. He made his name with the tragicomedy Le Cid in 1637. His best-known works include the tragedies Horace (1640) and Cinna (1640).
MOLIERE founded the ‘Illustre Theatre’ troupe and wrote numerous comedies, including Tartuffe (1664), which was banned, Le Misanthrope (1666) and L’Avare (1668).
JEAN RACINE became known as one of the period’s leading playwrights, with such tragedies as Andromaque (1667), Britannicus (1669) and Phedre (1677).
JOHN EDMUNDS had a varied career as an actor, teacher, and BBC TV national newsreader before becoming the founder-director of Aberystwyth university’s department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies.
JOSEPH HARRIS is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (2005).
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